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If your goal is simply to save space on your internal drive, you can install Visual Studio 2015 onto a high-speed external SSD or USB 3.0 drive.

You can now plug that SSD into any computer hosting VirtualBox or VMware, boot your VM, and access your fully configured Visual Studio 2015 environment with zero footprint left on the host system. Method 2: Application Virtualization (Advanced) Visual Studio 2015 Portable

(VS Code) is the best option. It is not the full VS 2015 IDE but a highly extensible source code editor. How to get it: Download the Windows ZIP version from the VS Code download page Enable Portable Mode: Extract the ZIP and create a new folder named If your goal is simply to save space